Stress Relief, Health and Wellness Blog

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Anxiety and psoriasis. Is there a connection?
Anxiety and psoriasis. Is there a connection?

Although psoriasis is considered an immune system disorder, there are a variety of triggers that can cause it to appear. Certain medications, cold weather, an injury to the skin, or even a strep infection may cause psoriasis to appear [...]

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Can you eat only ‘real food’ for a month?

(CNN) — The task set by a food blogger seemed deceptively simple: Eat real food for a month.
More than 900 people signed up for the challenge, and some were confident that it would not be difficult to avoid processed foods for 28 [...]

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Healthy Heart
28 Days, 28 Ways to Slash Your Risk of Heart Disease

Celebrate American Heart Month by using this calendar of tips to lower your risk for heart disease. Each year, more than 870,000 Americans die from cardiovascular disease—it’s the leading cause of death among women and men. The good news is [...]

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Stress and Self Sabotage:Are You Creating Additional Mental Stress For Yourself?
Though virtually everyone experiences stress, sometimes the way we react to stress amounts to self sabotage! We’ve all found ourselves being impatient with people or taking out frustrations on innocent bystanders, or causing unnecessary conflicts and mental stress [...]

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Chile quake moves city more than 10 feet

(CNN) — The magnitude-8.8 earthquake that rocked the west coast of Chile last month was violent enough to move the city of Concepcion at least 10 feet to the west and the capital, Santiago, about 11 inches to the west-southwest, researchers said.
The quake [...]

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6 ways mushrooms can save the world: Paul Stamets on TED.com

Mycologist Paul Stamets studies mycelium and lists 6 ways that this astonishing fungus can help save the world. Cleaning polluted soil, creating new insecticides, treating smallpox and maybe even the flu … in 18 minutes, he doesn’t get all [...]

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Rare Buddhist flower found under nun’s washing machine

A rarely seen Buddhist flower, which blossoms every 3,000 years, has been discovered under a nun’s washing machine
The Udumbara flower was found in the home of a Chinese nun in Lushan Mountain, Jiangxi province, China. The rare Youtan Poluo or Udumbara flower, [...]

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Chile Earthquake May Have Shortened Days on Earth
SPACE.com Space.com Staff
space.com – Tue Mar 2, 10:00 am ET

The massive 8.8 earthquake that struck Chile may have changed the entire Earth’s rotation and shortened the length of days on our planet, a NASA scientist said Monday.
 
The quake, the seventh strongest earthquake in [...]

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Superwoman syndrome fuels pill-pop culture

By Karen Asp
msnbc.com contributor
updated 2 hours, 31 minutes ago//
While street drug use has been declining in recent years, prescription drug abuse has been up since the 1990s. The trend has been most striking in women because unlike with most drugs, which are more commonly abused by [...]

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Hospital infections killed 48,000, report shows
WASHINGTON – Pneumonia and blood-borne infections caught in U.S. hospitals killed 48,000 patients and cost $8.1 billion in 2006, according to a report released on Monday. The study is one of the first to put a price tag on the widespread problem, which is worsening [...]